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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

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Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
Politician
Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
Tested
Fire
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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.
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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
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I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.
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I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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July does not a November election make.
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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.
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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.
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If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
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One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.
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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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